There were some upsets with Green Bay and New Orleans both losing at home.

I know I was off on some picks. As a matter of fact, I am in the Pick’Emevery week with the sports analysts on CBS. Boomer Esiason and ShannonSharpe both went 11-5. Dan Marino was 10-6 and Bill Cower and I started outthe year at 9-7.

That is not the way I wanted to start the year out,especially after beating all these guys last year. Now I have somework ahead of me.

Okay, I’ve heard it all week on my pick against theBroncos and I won’t even make any excuses, I will just take mymedicine and move on.

I will say, Steelers’ QB Ben Roethlisberger did miss touchdowns to wide open receivers on three different drives. He didn’t look comfortable and I’m going to give the credit to a very aggressive defensive scheme by Jack Del Rio.

I also liked the fact that Peyton Manning canned the John Foxconservative approach and called his own plays in the second half.

The Broncos face a huge test on Monday Night Football against Atlanta. The Falcons are by far the superior team on both sides of the ball, but as Boom (Chris Berman of ESPN) would say, that’s why they play the game.

RG3 (Robert Griffin III) the quarterback for the Redskins is for real and so is Washington, butwe knew Mike Shanahan would get it going there. By the way, the Chicago Bears look real good as well.

This weekend is going to be a blast to watch.

It’s a coin toss with KC and Buffalo but I’m going with the Bills.

I’m picking Philly over Baltimore (a tough game to pick).

The Giants over the Bucs.

New England over Arizona.

Houston over Jacksonville.

New Orleans over Carolina (a tough pick ).

Cincy over Cleveland.

Indy over Minnesota (tough pick ).

Washinton over the Rams.

Dallas over Seattle.

Pittsburgh over the Jets (tough pick ).

S.D. Chargers over Tennessee.

San Fransico over the Lions (tough pick).

That’s a lot of hard picks this week.

On a final note, sorry Bronco nation, the Falcons over Denver on Monday Night Football.